Tag Archives: Israel

Israeli troops kill Palestinian boy

31/3/10; (2 Items) A 15-year-old Palestinian boy has been killed and several others injured near Gaza’s border with Israel after Israeli troops opened fire at Israeli Arabs and Palestinians protesters marking the “Land day”. Witnesses said Mohamed al-Farmawi was shot dead on Tuesday after he approached the fence along the border with Israel. Gaza emergency […]read more…

Expulsion of Israeli diplomat would be ‘extreme’

Cameron Stewart; 31/3/10 The nation’s peak Jewish organisation has warned it would be an “extreme” reaction for the government to expel an Israeli diplomat as retaliation for the fake passport scandal. In its first public comments since Britain last week expelled an Israeli diplomat, raising pressure on Australia to follow suit, the Executive Council of […]read more…

Israel fears US shift in peace policy

Abraham Rabinovich; 30/3/10; (2 Items) Israeli officials fear that the US government, in a radical shift of policy, is planning to impose a permanent peace settlement on Israel and the Palestinians within the next two years. The public snub of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the White House last week is seen […]read more…

Relations sour as Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffs the US

John Lyons, 27/5/10 The Mayflower Hotel is a grand old building in one of the best parts of Washington, and Benjamin Netanyahu had one of its grandest suites. So why would the Israeli Prime Minister not hold meetings in the suite during his visit this week? The Israeli media said he feared the Americans had […]read more…

The big shift: US puts Israel on notice

Paul McGeough; 29/3/10 There was nothing casual in General David Petraeus’s session with the Committee on Senate Armed Services. Far from being off-the-top-of-the-head responses to senators’ questions, Petraeus, the commander of the US Central Command, brought a considered 12,000-word document, in which he framed the Israel-Palestine conflict as a “root cause of instability” and an […]read more…

Israel to impose 9-day blockade of West; Bank

Mohammad Mari; 28/3/10; http://arabnews.com/world/article36185.ece Israeli forces will impose a full blockage of the West Bank starting Sunday night. The blockade will be in effect for nine days. The closure will be lifted following another security assessment after the Israeli Passover holiday is over. The Israeli army said in a press statement that following orders of […]read more…

Israeli West Bank food company fakes address for EU markets

Akiva Eldar; 26/3/10 Shamir Salads, an Israeli company located in the West Bank, is marketing its products in Europe using a false address west of the Green Line, violating an agreement between Israel and the European Union. Jewish activists last week gave the left-wing Gush Shalom movement a label from a Shamir Salads hummus tin […]read more…

Playing hardball with Netanyahu?

Sherine Tadros; 26/3/10 When Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, arrived in Washington on an official visit and met with the US president, he received “the treatment reserved for the President of Equatorial Guinea”. Or so read the editorial pieces in some of Israel’s main newspapers. Israel feels humiliated after Netanyahu’s Washington adventure. They believe […]read more…

Israel must justify its policy of secret killings

Ben MacIntyre; 26/3/10 British Foreign Secretary David Miliband was diplomatically livid. “Such misuse of British passports is intolerable.” Israel had broken every rule, he said, by cloning British documents that were used by some of the hit-team sent to kill the Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel room. In retaliation for forging Her […]read more…

Australia must stand up for itself

25/3/10; (2 Items) Given Britain’s lead, Australia, too, needs to expel an Israeli diplomat if it is serious about its concerns over the use of Australian passports in the assassination plot of a Hamas leader in Dubai (”Brits to expel Israeli diplomat in Mossad passport row”, March 24). The British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, accused […]read more…

Israelis lost for words in peace impasse

John Lyons, 25/3/10 Israel is attempting to come up with a formal set of words that the Obama administration says it requires to ensure the resumption of Middle East peace talks. After three days of meetings, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Washington to return home last night while key Israeli advisers stayed on in […]read more…

Britain to expel Israeli envoy

24/3/10 Britain was expected early today to expel an Israeli diplomat from London over the use of forged British passports in the Mossad assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The move by Foreign Secretary David Miliband is the most severe rebuke from the five countries whose passports were faked for the January 20 hit in […]read more…

Israel defies US over settlements

23/3/10 Israel’s prime minister has rejected US pressure over the expansion of Jewish settlements. Speaking to a pro-Israel lobby group in Washington DC on Monday, Binyamin Netanyahu said “Jerusalem is not a settlement” and Israel has the right to build there. “Everyone knows, everyone – Americans, Europeans, Israelis certainly, Palestinians – everyone knows that these […]read more…

Netanyahu defuses feud and bows to US

22/3/10 Israel has agreed to hold off on building plans in east Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised the US his government will delay new building plans in east Jerusalem and free Palestinian prisoners to defuse the worst feud with Washington in decades, Israeli cabinet ministers say. Four ministers confirmed reports last night […]read more…

Squeeze Israel by cutting US aid? Not likely

Karoun Demijarian; 20/3/10 The diplomatic crisis between the US and Israel has sent a tremor through their alliance, but one key part of the bond seems virtually untouchable: The roughly $3 billion a year in US military aid. Israel’s harsher critics often call for aid cuts to twist Israel’s arm. Yet amid the uproar of […]read more…

Dirty deeds

Phillip Adams; 20/3/10 The butler did do it. In the classic movie Murder on the Orient Express the butler, played by the oleaginous John Gielgud, did the dirty deed. But then, so did everyone else. The entire trainload of characters, excluding only Hercule Poirot, committed one and the same murder. And in the end we’re […]read more…